Is it valid?

It doesn't look like that would be legal in PA.

"Applicants are advised that persons who have been ordained over the Internet may not be persons permitted to perform marriages in Pennsylvania. A recent Court decision held that persons ordained over the Internet are not ministers as defined in the marriage law of Pennsylvania IF they do not regularly preach to a congregation that regularly meets at a place of worship. You are advised to consult an attorney concerning the legality of such marriages."

https://www.mcc.co.mercer.pa.us/registerofwills/Disclaimer.Marriage.License.Officiants.pdf

Okay this helps. Thanks!

You will need to check with your county clerk. There should also be a link on the church's website that lists what the state laws are and how to go about being everything set up, that's the site we are using to get my best friend ordained. I'll see if I can find the links I saw previously.

I would do a google search on marriage requirements for your county as it can vary.

Pennsylvania also has a self-uniting marriage license—you could apply for and use it and just ask your aunt to do the ceremony with you guys the day of for “show” so to speak.

View Quoted Comment I really like that idea! We might look into that. Thank you!

Https://www.google.com/amp/s/verdict.justia.com/amp/2011/11/01/can-universal-life-church-ministers-officiate-at-weddings-in-some-states-the-answer-is-no

This is from that article.

Definitely check with your county clerks office to find out for sure. I'm in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and my understanding is it's only Bucks & York counties that don't accept ULC ministers. The woman from Luzerne County that actually files the marriage licenses said to me if it says minister then she takes it at that and processes the marriage license. Her exact words were "I'm not the minister police". :-)

View Quoted Comment Even if the county records the marriage certificate, that does necessarily mean that the marriage is legal. The problem will occur at a later date (potentially years later) if the legality of the marriage is challenged (during divorce or for some other reason) and a court determines the marriage was not valid—i.e. never happened.

Please do not listen to legal advice from internet strangers. Talk to a family lawyer in Pennsylvania. Or just avoid the issue and hire a professional. The whole point of the wedding is to get married. This is the one detail you do not want to leave to chance.

Idk if you would be interested in this but my best friend had a similar situation. In Tennessee you have to be a preacher/priest/pastor etc, but she wanted her godfather to officiate. To get around this, they had a private ceremony about an hour before the wedding with a different (legal) officiant (they stood back to back because they weren’t doing a first look) and then had her godfather officiated their actual ceremony right after. No one even knew this took place until weeks after the wedding when the videographer’s footage of their “secret ceremony” got so famous that basically everyone in the world has seen it now haha!